Preventing George Leventhal inclusionary zoning support from being smeared as 'close to developers'

  Marc Elrich, or his volunteer supporters at an individually ‘uncoordinated’ level in F2F (face to face) door to door voter contact, might dredge up 2002 “End Gridlock” ‘slate’ ‘membership’ as negative campaigning against George Leventhal because of having to return county matching funds for donations above $150 (or from out of county residents) as a ‘sign’ of ‘lack of attention’ to citizens instead of ‘developers’

as the process complaint (political populism) to distract from master plan, sector plan and zoning text amendment vote

(economic populism by effects of council votes on the ‘local economy’ that ‘works for people earning low, middle and high incomes’)

disagreements. 


  In 2006, the last year when Montgomery County, Md (MoCo) had an executive election without an incumbent, Isiah Leggett’s supporters used the percentage of Steve Silverman’s campaign donations that came from ‘developers,’ and their land use law firms, as a similar process complaint that distracted from issues of what to build where and how much (and who can afford to live in it) if the decision was to build more housing.  

  Marc Elrich is carrying Isiah Leggett’s and Phil Andrews’ ‘water’ that was originally supplied by Neighbors for a Better Montgomery leadership (Jim Humphrey and Drew Powell).  Humphrey and Powell were enabled by the late Wayne Goldstein (worked with Humphrey on the Planning and Land Use Committee of the MoCo Civic Federation) and (Elrich’s 2018 treasurer) Dale Tibbetts’ involvement in planning and land use issues with the Montgomery Civic Federation from 2002-7. 


  George Leventhal’s past “End Gridlock” ‘slate’ ’baggage’ that could tip votes for Marc Elrich is answered here


Floreen is the last surviving completely unrepentant* member of Doug Duncan’s and Steve Silverman’s infamous “End Gridlock” slate of the early aughts [2002]. For those with short memories, this is the team that engaged in character assassination of all those opposed to full development-industry ownership of the county. Floreen has spent her entire 16 years in office trying to pave everything in sight, while opposing almost all economic justice and environmental legislation. I was among those looking forward to never hearing from her again, as she is forced out of office after next year, due to term limits.


*George Leventhal was also on that disgusting slate, but has not exactly been wearing it as a badge of honor, since.